List: Maps: Types: Savanna

3.5. Savanna

* Region:

* Characteristics:
- An inter-zonal map between better watered mountain and desert or desert and tropic
- A map characterised by broadly spaced clumps of trees which are a mixture of oaken-leafed evergreen, deciduous baobab, palm type trees and scrub type plants
- Typically a rather flat plane map having an occasional hummock rises here and there.
- Relatively open but does have occasional ‘strag’ trees and rocky outcrops here and there.
- Note that Savanna biome maps are limited to elevation heights of mid-level and below, low-level.
- Rains are predominantly and frequently heavy in summer but never snows, dry 'winter' season.
- Savanna has very little water on it though it may have an occasional lake, stream, or river and dry sandy or muddy lakebeds with water holes; streams may run for wahile and then empty into shallow marshy lake having no outlet to the sea in some cases. 
- It is very green during the rainy season and for awhile thereafter (Autumn) but rather sere at other times of the year.
- It is well endowed with animals including dangerous ones.
- Somewhat light on forest and stone but good for ore.
- Defensively or agressively the map may be fairly well balanced to open to agression.

* Typical Savanna type variations:
*Fortress
*Nomadic
*Herocide 

* Packeting Parameters:
*Elevation Meshes
- Primary (Lowlands).
- Secondary (Midlands).
- Quaternary (Ocean Floor).
*Terrain Textures
- DIRT1
- DIRT3
- GRASS5
- SAND2
- FORFLOOR5
- ROAD1
- ROAD2
- WATER1
- WATER2
- WATER3
- RIVER1
- RIVER2
- RIVER3
- RIVER4
- RIVER5
- RIVER6
- RIVER7
*Flora Tree Objects
- TREE4
- TREE22
- TREE27
- TREE39
- TREE40
- TREE41
- TREE42
*Flora Plant Objects
- PLANT1
- PLANT2
- PLANT4
- PLANT5
- PLANT11
- PLANT17
- PLANT18
- PLANT22
*Fauna Objects
- ANIMAL1
- ANIMAL3
- ANIMAL4
- ANIMAL10
- ANIMAL11
- ANIMAL14
- ANIMAL15
- ANIMAL16
- ANIMAL18
- ANIMAL21
- ANIMAL26
- ANIMAL27
- ANIMAL28
- ANIMAL30
- ANIMAL32
- ANIMAL35
- ANIMAL36
- ANIMAL39
- ANIMAL40
- ANIMAL41
- ANIMAL42
- ANIMAL43
*Geological Objects
- GEOLOGICAL1
- GEOLOGICAL3
- GEOLOGICAL4
- GEOLOGICAL5
- GEOLOGICAL6
- GEOLOGICAL7
- GEOLOGICAL12
- GEOLOGICAL19
- GEOLOGICAL27

Savanna Land types:
3.5.1. Sahel

- Situated southside of the Atlas mountain range in North Africa.
- Is a somewhat open map having almost all of the characteristics stated above except for having no river of significant size.
- Civ Territories are divided as appropriate to the map.

Savanna Water types:
3.5.2. Gambia River

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- Characterised by having a river running through it east to west opening out onto the Atlantic Ocean toward the western edge of the map.
- The river has a few shallows crossings and is loaded with crocodiless along its course.
- Riverside stone or ore seam gathering is fraught with danger.
- Civ Territories are divided proportionately north and south of along the course of the river).